Quotes About Integrity

Upholders-tipped-to-Obligers have a commitment to both inner and outer expectations, for them, the pull of outer expectations is very hard to ignore; UPHOLDER/Obligers must be sure to articulate inner expectations and to create boundaries to protect inner expectations from outer interference.

Make it easy to do right and hard to go wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography

He gave his assistant a stamped, addressed envelope with a check he'd written to an "anti-charity," an organization whose policies he passionately opposes, with the instruction to mail the check if he had a drink before the time was up.

If I want my life to be a certain way, I must be that way myself.

I wasnt political in order to be political

Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.

When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Ah! thought Rodolphe, turning very pale, that was what she came for. At last he said with a calm air— Dear madame, I have not got them. He did not lie. If he had had them, he would, no doubt, have given them, although it is generally disagreeable to do such fine things: a demand for money being, of all the winds that blow upon love, the coldest and most destructive.

notre siècle est un siècle de putains, et ce qu'il y a de moins prostitué, jusqu'à présent, ce sont les prostituées.

inconnus, s'enthousiasmait pour une oeuvre ou pour un homme, et, s'obstinant alors, ne regardant à rien, multipliait les courses, les correspondances, les réclames. Il se croyait fort honnête, et, dans son besoin d'expansion, racontait naïvement ses indélicatesses.

Faute. « C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute. » (Talleyrand.) « Il n'y a plus une seule faute à commettre. » (Thiers.) Ces deux phrases doivent être articulées avec profondeur.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all, and nothing more

Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!

We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.

Atlar?n? çift sürmeye gönderecek yerde üzerlerine bindiÄŸinden , Elma ÅŸarab?n satacak yerde kendini içtiÄŸinden, Kümesinin en besili hayvanlar?n? yediÄŸinden, Av çizmelerini domuzlar?n?n içya??yla yaÄŸlad???ndan bütün ticareti olduÄŸu yerde b?rak?vermenin daha iyi olaca??n? anlamakta gecikmedi.

Bourse (la). Thermomètre de l'opinion publique. Boursiers. Tous voleurs.

Comme la vie serait pleine de choses charmantes si nous pouvions compter sur la discrétion absolue les uns des autres.

Sizi inciten her neyse, onu ba?kas?na yapmay?n. Size ac? veren bir ?eyle ba?kas?n? incitmeyin. Kendinize yap?lmas?n? istemedi?iniz ?eyleri ba?kas?na yapmay?n.

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. —Henry Ford